Im currently looking at ways to make an (LDOM) OVM guest more
portable. I'm a massive fan of Virtualbox and love the fact that you
can download an ovf, import it and within a few minutes have a live
system running. I know that there is not much demand for a portable OVM
guest due to hardware restrictions but still it would be cool (nerdy).
Using cold and warm migration is fine but I'd like to be able to grab an OVM.ovf file from a repository, import into OVM and have a running system in a few minutes. There are a few approaches to this such as using zfs snapshot and clone or just using a 16g chunk of disk, install the guest, sys-unconfig and then copy. None of these are clean and simple.
From a testing perspective OVM is class especially when combined with ZFS. If you haven't tried OVM or VirtualBox (Also works great with ZFS) I highly recommend both.
If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, thoughts or even better answers feel free to comment.
Tom
Using cold and warm migration is fine but I'd like to be able to grab an OVM.ovf file from a repository, import into OVM and have a running system in a few minutes. There are a few approaches to this such as using zfs snapshot and clone or just using a 16g chunk of disk, install the guest, sys-unconfig and then copy. None of these are clean and simple.
From a testing perspective OVM is class especially when combined with ZFS. If you haven't tried OVM or VirtualBox (Also works great with ZFS) I highly recommend both.
If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, thoughts or even better answers feel free to comment.
Tom
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